Indianapolis Recorder, Indianapolis, Marion County, 7 October 1978 — Page 10

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Believe Me,, When I Tell You BOB WOMACK SB.

Greetings! Fans & Friends: THE STAGE: Don’t listen to people of color who say. Oh,! don’t go into the theatre, motion pictures or television, it’s too hard. Anything is too hard along the line. There are more opportunities now for the soul brothers and sisters than ever before. People forget your failures once you’ve had some success. While success in the theatre looks very easy, actually it’s been hammered out of, or hammered into all the people involved. By the time it’s right, everyone has been beaten, hurt and hammered into shape. If the public doesn’t like the shape, you take a bigger beating. Young dudes and gals who want to go into the theatre should be prepared for that. To be successful in the theatre, one must possess among other things, a combination of these qualities: An irrational love of the theatre: ambition and industry. Also one can not be an actress or actor ‘on the side.’ If that is what you want, then, stick to your school or community group theatre. The stage, is a rough world for any. but the ones who are willing to make sacrifices to achieve anv success in the exacting art, this toughest of all jobs - ACTING. Actor Sidney Pokier, the first black brother to win a top movie award for his protrayal of an itinerant Baptist construction worker who helped Nuns build a church in "Lillies of The Field,” found out that he was an Oscar winner, one of his first comments were: “It was a very long and hard journey to this moment, and I thank a lot of people for making it possible." FROM THE NOTE BOOK: Tisha Campbell, the tiny New Jersey singer who'll be seen on ITT’s “Big Blue Marble" this fall will play the lead in the play “Really Rosie" at the JFK,Center, in Washington, D.C.. on Oct. 10. Tisha was the first runner-up in the recent “1978, Little Miss Black USA" contest held at NYC's Apollo Theatre...." Sesame Street Fever” is a disco Lp that has sold 350,000 copies domestically and is about to be launched abroad. It’s the work of Joe Raposa w-ho put in seven-years of songwriting for the Children's Television Workshop and it’s top show, “Sesame Street." Winston Ntshona and John Kani, the two South African actors

who won the New York Theatre Tony Award as the “Best Actors of 1975,” in “Sizwe Banzi Is Dead” will be seen in a new forthcoming Allied Artists film, “The Wild Geese” which stars Richard Burton; Roger Moore; Richard Harris; Hardy Kruger and Stewart Granger. It’s a rousing adventure film about a group of mercenary soldiers who attempt to rescue the imprisoned leader of an emerging African nation. The flick opens nationwide on Nov. 10. It is dedicated to the memory of Moise Tshombe, the voice of reconciliation in Africa. Eubie Blake, whose songs are now being ‘lionized’ on Broadway in “Eubie” gives the lie to those who say smoking is harmful. He’s a chain-smoker and a bouncing 95-year-old....Barry Harris, jazz pianist will be in concert at NYC’s Cami Hall on Saturday, Oct. 14 with two shows. Featuring the following guest soloists: Slide Hampton (Indy native); Harold Vick; Tommy Turrentine and Lonnie Hillyer...Some of the best jazz you would want to hear is on the Atlantic label such as, “Cosmic Messenger,” by Jean-Luc Ponty and “Infinity Is,” by Sonny Fortune. While commenting on today’s music in a recent interview with this reporter, Michael Henderson, vocalist and writer said, “It’s boring. A lot of the boring music I hear on the radio is played over and over again. There are a*few groups around that I like, but on the whole every song you hear on the radio sounds the same. And those girls in the background - it must be the same girls, should be rich. Those people responsible for this music are destroying people with talent because you can’t ever hear any other sound, but that sound on radio. A lot of these artists aren’t artists. They’re just out to make a buck. I think a lot of young people are being robbed and deprived of a musical education they snould have."...Right On Brother! Coming attractions for NBC-TV with special interest to the Recorder readers include: “Tap Dance Kids,” a special program for youngsters about black dancers, Oct. 24; Esther Rolle, starring in “Summer of My German Soldier,” Oct. 30, and a TV adaptation TURN TO PAGE 11

Ms. Carroll next in ‘Pops’ series

Popular singer/actress Diahann Carroll will appear Nov.,. 12 in the second of the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra's remaining Sunday Night Pops concerts in Clowes Hall. Ms. Carroll, whose acting roles include the now defunct situation comedy “Julia," and the lead in the motion picture “Claudine," will he followed Dec. 3 in the series by singer Vic Damone. Remaining shows spill over into 1979, with Mitch Miller encouraging the audience to “sing along" in the hall Mar. 18, jazz artist Billy Taylor and his trio Apr. 1. and Chet Atkins, sharing the stage with pops conductor Erich Kunzel May 13. Dial 924-1267 for ticket availability. Another set for Freddy Cole Closing an engagement Saturday in Hyatt Regency Hotel’s Well House, jazz pianist Freddy Cole will play in The Committee to Re-Elect Judge Webster Brewer's An Evening With Freday Cole concert, from 3-7 p.m. Sunday in Pearl’s Lounge, McLean and Illinois. Donation is $10.

PARTY LIGHTS

Activities began Wednesday and will have included dances, parades, and a football game before closing out with Lewis’ nightcap show, for which tickets are $5.50 and $4.50. Dinner Theater planned at IUPUI Speaking of school stage activities, Indiana University-Purdue University at Indianapolis' University Theatre will feature a dinner theatre version of Agatha Christie’s "The Hollow,” Oct. 13-15 in the Union Building, 1300 West Michigan. Dinner will begin at 6:30 p.m. each n ; ght, with the play, a mystery in which Dr. John Cristow (Carr Darden) is murdered by one of his four love interests while enjoying a weekend in London, hitting the stage at 8 p.m. Advance student tickets are $3, while general admission seats are $4.50. Dial 264-7685 for information.

Selling records, not a sexy image

By LYNN FORD Being regarded a sex symbol is one of the fringe benefits of singing out front in a ponular group. But MOTHER’S FINEST’s JOYCE KENNEDY and HEATWAVE’S JOHNNIE WILDER, who will lead their groups through opening segments at next Thursday’s BROTHERS JOHNSON concert in Market Square Arena, don’t neccessarUy pursue the extra adulation.

Neither admits to deliberately gyrating and flashing niles to the opposite sex of a crowd tor the sole pi

“I try not to be too involved with that,” the kitten-like Ms.

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smiles to the opposite sex of a crowd for the sole purpose of trading plastic thrills for offers to “take you home with me" from

the cheap seats.

JOYCE KENNEDY a fine mother

SOUL SOUNDS

Kennedy said from a St. Louis hotel, "because I’m a lady and I just deal with doing my job. The sex thing will come anyway, because all women are sexy in their own way." “Many times, I don’t if I’m being characterized as a sex symbol,” Wilder offered from another St. Louis hotel phone, “but the image I portray on stage is the real me. I’m not putting on any front. But if they (audiences) views it as being sensual, then good (laughs).” They may not be interested in selling a sexual image while in the middle of a tune like Mother’s Finest’s “Thank You For the Love,” or Heatwave’s “Always and Forever," but the acts have been about the business of selling a lot of quality product. Heatwave’s “Boogie Nights" was one of three platinum-selling (two million in sales) singles last year, joining ROSE ROYCE’S “Car Wash," and DEBBY BOONE’s “You Lite Up My Life.” The seven-man band with members from five countries watched the followup, “Always and Forever," sell gold, and push the “Too Hot to Handle” album past the double-platinum (two million in sales) mark. Band’s latest album, "Central Heating,” is nearing double platinum, with its platinum single, “The Groove Line," and followup, “Mind Blowing Decisions." "Baby Love" and "Thank You For the Love" earned Mother’s Finest more listeners last year, as the stellar singles from the band’s “Another Mother Further" album. Ms. Kennedy says the band, which put on both a visually and musically energetic show here last fall with Rose Royce, took its name after sweetening up the initials to two words which described just how tough the band wants to be. Pendergrass gets a queen Singer TEDDY PENDERGRASS will ride to his Expo Center concert Sunday in regal style. He'll have DIANE WALKER, winner of Soul Sounds’ Teddy Bear’s Queen for a Night Contest, on his arm when his limousine pulls away from his hotel in time for the 8 p.m. show. ’ Miss Walker's entry was pulled first in a random drawing to determine who w ould join Pendergrass on his limousine ride to the concert, as well as w in an official Teddy Pendergras-: Teddy Bear. Four other w inners were drawn for the queen's court, including one repeat from last August’s ISLEY BROTHERS ticket giveaway, and awarded teddy bears. Those winners, who were to be notified by phone, were: Lynnette Hatcher [repeat winner] Indianapolis Linda Finley Indianapolis Delores Shewmake Peru Patricia Alien Indianapolis Winners will have until 5 p.m. Saturday to claim their prizes from The Recorder, 2901 North Tacom;. Unclaimed prizes (except for Pendergrass, of course I will become the property of The Indianapolis Recorder. *** Following are the week’s pick Soul Sounds: “Is It Love"- LARRY GRAHAM AND GRAHAM CENTRAL STATION; “Got to Be Real"--CHERYL LYNN; “You Got Me Runmn’"-LENNY WILLIAMS; "There’ll Never Be”-SWITCH; and “You Stepped Into My Life”-MELBA MOORE.

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Few Lewis tickets left His 7 p.m. show’s a complete sellout, but a few seats remain for comedian/actor Jerry Lewis' 10 p.m. appearance Sunday in Ball State University’s “Still Crazy After All These Tears” homecoming in Emens Auditorium.

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DID KIM GILBER KILL DR. CRISTOW (CARR DARDEN)? find out in lUPUI’s version of “The Hollow”

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Lola booked big LOS ANGELES--Singer-actress Lola Falana’s attendance record - breaking Las Vegas headline debut last August in the Aladdin Hotel has earned the Sammy Davis Jr. protege a 16-week booking there next year. Ms. Falana will become the strip’s recordholder for most weeks booked in a hotel showroom.

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